How to safely uninstall W98 on dual boot with XP?

[felixmanos]

I installed W98 first and then XPPro. I wanna uninstall W98 because I simply don't use it anymore, but I have heard there are precautions that have to be taken to keep from queering the bootup files. Can someone tell me what I have to do to make that happen?

Thanks
felix

 

[firewall]

I don't know the exact name of the files but you get the dual boot menu from the file boot.ini in root drive. There are other important ones with .sys and .bat extensions. Check through msconfig.
Have you given win98 a lot of space on your HD? If not, then simply set winXP as default and the timeout to zero in boot.ini but keep in mind that it won't remove win98, just sort of hide it and you would be able to see it through explorer or My computer.
If space is not a problem, then keep win98 on your pc since its installation only occupies something like 200-400 MB. It sometimes helps diagnose problems in your winXP installation.

See if that helps....

 

[itswork]

Check out this KB article from MS. There's not much to it.

Link for W98 removal

Hope it helps!

 

[felixmanos]

Thanks for the responses. I apprieciate y'all giving me some perspective. The link provided gave some pretty good info and I bookmarked it. Now I have to get up the nerve to make it happen.